This is LIVErpool Performances

This is LIVErpool will take place at the CUC Liverpool on September 3rd. Doors open to the public from 8pm until midnight. Brought to you by BigDog Interactive. Watch this space for an updated listing of performances. Free entry and preview at 7pm + 2 free welcome drinks to (re)Actor3 participants.

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Future of Sound - www.futureofsound.org
Future of Sound is a not-for-profit organisation that provides a forum for the discussion of new and convergent art forms. By creating immersive experiences using state of the art sound technology Future of Sound showcases leading practitioners in the fields of music and audio design, collaborating with artists and scientists. Several extrodinary artists from the Future of Sound organisation will be performing at (re)Actor3 throughout the evening.

The Sancho Plan
Our work explores the real-time interaction between music and video and its potential for narrative and storytelling. Through the careful combination of animation, sound, music and interactive technology, we create fantastical worlds in which animated musical characters are triggered by a variety of electronic musical instruments and interfaces. Instantly engaging and universally understandable, our live AV performances and installations invite you to experience their playful interactive adventures. The Sancho Plan is an award-winning collaboration of writers, musicians, animators, designers and computer programmers, whose creative output has been shown in clubs, festivals, cinemas, theatres and on television and computer screens around the world.

Luciana Haill
Neurofeedback artist Luciana has over 15 years experience recording raw brainwaves (EEG) and an obsession with the Human Brain since recovering from Viral Meningitis as a teenager, utilising medical biofeedback technology to make music. Her current work involves a study of Lucid Dreaming in a retreat of Big Island of Hawaii, Brain biofeedback experiments and sonic augmentation through special "Lucy Tuning" techniques. Involving several Bluetooth EEG recordind interfaces particularly IBVA (Interactive Brainwave Visual Analyser) she records brainwaves virtually anywhere and arranges multimedia interactive controls and feedback. The blue headband (often seen on Luciana) contains medical electrodes detecting the EEG at the prefrontal cortex of her brain.

TILLY AUTOMATIC (aka Sarah Nicolls) 'Machines within machines' www.sarahnicolls.com
Recipient of the (re)Actor3 Artist in Residence Grant, sponsored by the Centre for Digital Music. Sarah Nicolls is a pianist, specialising in the performance of contemporary music since 2000. She regularly performs at London’s South Bank Centre (often with the London Sinfonietta) and on BBC Radio (giving solo premieres of commissioned works). She most often performs as a soloist but is also one of the trio Alexander’s Annexe with Mira Calix and David Sheppard (WARP Records) with whom she has performed at festivals such as Berlin’s Transmedial, ELECTRON in Geneva and SONAR in Barcelona. In recent years she has focussed on working with electronics and improvisation and last year carried out her first funded academic research project into performer-controlled electronics in solo piano performance. Supported by a research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, she commissioned six new pieces for piano and live electronics which were premiered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. As a Lecturer in Music at Brunel University she is currently supported by a Brunel Research Innovation and Enterprise Fund award to investigate further the issues of interactive performance and instrumental development. Recently she ran a summer research project entitled PianoLab, creating a space to which she could invite collaborators to take a fresh look at these parallel considerations.

Nick Rothwell [a.k.a. CASSIEL] www.cassiel.com
Nick is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer. He has spent many years working with choreographers and dance companies (Laurie Booth, Ballett Frankfurt, Russell Maliphant, Lea Anderson, Random Dance) and has worked on projects at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), TECHNE (Istanbul) and CIANT (Prague). He is a regular performer at Different Skies (Arcosanti, Arizona) and is currently working with Body>Data>Space in London. CASSIEL plays live sets of pulse-based electronica utilising a combination of vintage and custom-built, cutting edge technology: a Sequentix P3 analogue-style step sequencer trades blows with the highly experimental and unpredictable Shard Sequencer, a software plug- in which samples and fragments audio into layers of sharp-edged rhythmic slices, constantly changing speed and direction. The musical style shifts between Berlin-school electronica, soothing ambient, tribal and glitch, depending on whether the P3, the Shard, or the composer has the upper hand.

(re)Actor3 Hostesses
Detroit, Deb, Cathy & Tiff
Authoritative and informed, approachable and helpful, glamourous and gracious - they are there to help. Perhaps. As true and real to themselves as they can be, yet there is something of everyone in them. Look closely - like a living, breathing mirror they might just reflect back some part of you that you hadn't seen before. With years of experience doing what they do, they have appeared in previous incarnations as maids, air hostesses, catwalk models and even furry animals. But don't worry, this time they won't bite.

Sharewear - Di Susan Mainstone, Stock Stock and Simon de Bakker
A pair of reconfigurable, electronic dresses, Sharewear garments physically slot together to activate dramatic shards of light.  Assembled and operated by spectators, the dresses merge the seam between performer and audience.

GoLImp IV - Kingsley Ash
Cellular automata are computer models of evolving life - simple rules of interaction leading to complex behaviour that can be used to model populations, crystal structures and possibly even the nature of the universe itself. A cell with too many neighbours will die of overcrowding; a cell with too few will die of loneliness, while just the right number of neighbours will cause a new cell to be born. These simple processes repeated over and over again for every cell in the space produce strange and beautiful patterns that evolve over time; building up, developing, repeating, or dying away. The performance is a live improvisation using new software consisting of a multi-layered grid of these cellular automata operating under their own rules to generate and process musical events.

DJ Jazzbo, Liverpool